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Accuracy of workout trackers?
Posted on 11/26/20 at 11:04 am
Posted on 11/26/20 at 11:04 am
I have a Samsung Fit2. How accurate are these type watches in tracking calories burned? I know for sure they are precise on bpm.
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Posted on 11/26/20 at 11:06 am to MontyFranklyn
I have a new gen garmin and I think they have gotten pretty damn accurate within the last year or two.
Posted on 11/26/20 at 11:07 am to Captain Crackysack
It says I'm burning over 200 calories from just walking 30 minutes. That can't be right
Posted on 11/26/20 at 11:20 am to MontyFranklyn
Notoriously inaccurate.
Posted on 11/26/20 at 11:55 am to MontyFranklyn
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It says I'm burning over 200 calories from just walking 30 minutes. That can't be right
Like someone else said, notoriously inaccurate. My Apple Watch showed that I burned 981 total calories during a 50 minute lifting session.
Posted on 11/26/20 at 12:06 pm to MontyFranklyn
You could buy a dart board to estimate your calories burned in a set and it would probably be about as accurate.
Posted on 11/26/20 at 12:38 pm to Dixie Normus
Is there any real way to calculate it?
Posted on 11/26/20 at 1:30 pm to MontyFranklyn
Damn. Yeah that’s fricked. Idk though. My garmin forerunner seems about as on point as it can be.
This post was edited on 11/26/20 at 1:31 pm
Posted on 11/26/20 at 1:55 pm to MontyFranklyn
Strava seems to over estimate on walking/jogging and under on cycling. 600 calories for a 3.5 mile jog, yet 300 calories for a 15 mile ride. The lactate burn from the cycling is so much more severe, I can’t imagine that being correct.
Posted on 11/26/20 at 2:57 pm to DeafJam73
I’m sure someone smarter than me will find a way, but at the moment they seem to use heart rate as the estimator which is not really a good barometer as people from all sizes have varying heart rates.
Posted on 11/27/20 at 11:32 am to Dixie Normus
They use my height and weight and heart rate, but that still seems like too much. I did a 20 minute leg press session yesterday, lifting 350, and it said I only burned 260 calories. 
Posted on 11/27/20 at 11:59 am to MontyFranklyn
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It says I'm burning over 200 calories from just walking 30 minutes. That can't be right
I think the usual formula is 100 calories per mile, so a decently paced walk could hit that.
Posted on 11/27/20 at 2:15 pm to MontyFranklyn
Yeah, that’s par for the course. By no means do I think they’re bad nor would I encourage someone not to wear one. It’s actually the opposite because I think they at least give the average person a barometer to know that they are putting in some work and give them that satisfaction of “I’ve burned X...” But, they are inaccurate and that fact just is what it is
This post was edited on 11/27/20 at 2:17 pm
Posted on 11/29/20 at 2:42 pm to MontyFranklyn
quote:30 minutes of walking is about 320 calories. 1000 steps burns about 40 calories. It takes about 7-8 minutes to walk 1000 steps. I’ve been walking significant distances for years.
says I'm burning over 200 calories from just walking 30 minutes. That can't be right
Posted on 11/29/20 at 3:20 pm to tigergirl10
How are those numbers calculated? What factors are included? Is that just your numbers or universal?
Posted on 11/29/20 at 3:20 pm to tigergirl10
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30 minutes of walking is about 320 calories.
Even at a 10-minute mile pace on flat ground, you would have to weigh about 280lbs to burn that much.
Fitness trackers are notoriously inaccurate as noted but downvoted.
I will give a concrete example:
For caloric burn on my bike I use downloaded data from a dual-sided power meter (Quarq) and a chest strap HRM (Wahoo TICKRX) this is about as accurate as you will get outside of a lab, the same level of equipment pro cyclists use.
On an average base mileage ride, I will ride ~22mph on flat ground for 30-40 miles with an average BPM of 145-150. Via the power meter, I will burn about 1050 Kcal per hour. The various wrist fitness trackers (Coros, Fitbit, Apple, Garmin) I have tried run between 20-40% over when compared on the same ride and show significant variations in heart rate. They do have fairly good precision so fine for comparative data but have poor accuracy.
Posted on 11/29/20 at 5:59 pm to tigergirl10
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30 minutes of walking is about 320 calories
I wish. I don't burn that running for 30 minutes.
Posted on 12/1/20 at 10:48 am to Ingeniero
I expect that from running, but walking I expect more like 75-80 cal per mile.
Posted on 12/1/20 at 10:50 am to tigergirl10
This just seems wrong. I walk ~4500 steps on my morning walk (a little over 2 miles at about 18 minutes/mile), and I usually am only at about 150 cal from that.
Posted on 12/7/20 at 6:12 pm to MontyFranklyn
Is the Whoop band supposed to be more accurate? I don’t even know if it’s counts calories burned though
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